>
> If C:\cygwin\home\Jason is a directory, it should be, the alias should
> be alias t='todo.sh -d C:\\cygwin\\home\\Jason\\.todo' since .todo
> would be a file in that directory.
>
> --
> http://lorance.freeshell.org/
> http://lorancestinson.blogspot.com/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorancestinson/
>

Lorance!  You rock!  Thanks a million!  That was it!  The darn double
slash before the period.  Looked at it 100 times but it did not click.
  Thanks so much for point it out!  I am now up and running!  Thanks so
much.

Jason

On 11/9/06, jason.sprague <jburnellsprague@...> wrote:
>
> Lorance!  You rock!  Thanks a million!  That was it!  The darn double
> slash before the period.  Looked at it 100 times but it did not click.
>  Thanks so much for point it out!  I am now up and running!  Thanks so
> much.
>
> Jason

You are quite welcome. I can't count the number of times I've had bugs
that plagued me for hours or days that were only a single character
like that.

--
http://lorance.freeshell.org/
http://lorancestinson.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorancestinson/

Great. That's fixed it Graham. Thanks.

Colours do work under cygwin but the standard black shell background
makes the darker hues harder to read.

e.g. I found the following easier to view ...

# === PRIORITY COLORS ===
PRI_A = YELLOW # color for A priority
PRI_B = LIGHT_GREEN  # color for B priority
PRI_C = LIGHT_PURPLE   # color for B priority
PRI_X = WHITE # color for rest of them

Cheers.
Andrew

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "Graham Davies" <gpd@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for pointing this out - the fix is now in the latest svn
> version.  If you checked out a working copy you should be able to do:
>  svn update
>
> If not then grab from here:
>
> http://todo-py.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/todo.py
>
> Out of interest - do the colors work under cygwin?
>
> Thanks!
>

Licensing is GPL, which gives you full permission to modify it to C#,
or any other language. As far as the thumb drive, C# may not be the
best choice. C# is going to require the .NET runtime on any computer
you run it on.

However, if you still want to do it I would be willing to help out.
Just let me know what I can do.

Jimmy

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "Josh Blair" <josh.blair@...> wrote:
>
> Anyone interested in a C# .NET port of todo.txt?  I'm not sure if this
> is allowed with the licensing and such, but I was thinking this tool
> would be nice for people that don't run Cygwin on Windows.
>
> I'd be willing to work on this solo or in concert with others.
>
> [Feature Requests]
>
> 1) I was thinking that regex (regular expressions) search
> capability would be a nice addition.  If its already there, please let
> me know.
>
> 2) Ability to run on a thumb drive / USB stick
>
>
> Thanks for the tool Gina.  It is really cool. And Simple.
>
> Josh Blair
> Evergreen, CO
>

I was thinking of doing a ruby version. I don't know if it would be
worth it with the python version and all, but I am wondering if there
might be interest from people who are in to Ruby on Rails, and who
don't want to install cygwin or python on their machine as well. So
any takers?

Jimmy

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "parcelbrat" <j.deville@...> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of doing a ruby version. I don't know if it would be
> worth it with the python version and all, but I am wondering if there
> might be interest from people who are in to Ruby on Rails, and who
> don't want to install cygwin or python on their machine as well. So
> any takers?
>
> Jimmy

Yes, i am coding a ruby version on Linux. Not Ruby on Rails, but pure
Ruby :) It's called: todo.rb

b'bye,
pedro mg

Hi There,

I have been working on a C# solution for a bit now.  I need to do a
bit of polishing, and then I can make it publicly available (somehow).

Greg

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "Josh Blair" <josh.blair@...> wrote:
>
> Jimmy,
>
> I've never worked on an open source project before.  I thought this
would be
> a good project to start on.  I am away on business for the rest of
November
> so I probably won't start until after then.  If you are still
interested,
> let me know and I'll set something up in the early part of December.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Josh Blair
> Evergreen, CO
>
>
> On 11/10/06, parcelbrat <j.deville@...> wrote:
> >
> >   Licensing is GPL, which gives you full permission to modify it
to C#,
> > or any other language. As far as the thumb drive, C# may not be the
> > best choice. C# is going to require the .NET runtime on any computer
> > you run it on.
> >
> > However, if you still want to do it I would be willing to help out.
> > Just let me know what I can do.
> >
> > Jimmy
> >
> > --- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com <todotxt%40yahoogroups.com>, "Josh
Blair" <
> > josh.blair@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone interested in a C# .NET port of todo.txt? I'm not sure if
this
> > > is allowed with the licensing and such, but I was thinking this tool
> > > would be nice for people that don't run Cygwin on Windows.
> > >
> > > I'd be willing to work on this solo or in concert with others.
> > >
> > > [Feature Requests]
> > >
> > > 1) I was thinking that regex (regular expressions) search
> > > capability would be a nice addition. If its already there,
please let
> > > me know.
> > >
> > > 2) Ability to run on a thumb drive / USB stick
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the tool Gina. It is really cool. And Simple.
> > >
> > > Josh Blair
> > > Evergreen, CO
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

Hi There,

I have been working on a C# solution for a bit now.  I need to do a
bit of polishing, and then I can make it publicly available
(somehow).

Greg

PS, I have been having problems posting a reply.  If multiple
replies show up, I apologize for that.

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "Josh Blair" <josh.blair@...> wrote:
>
> Jimmy,
>
> I've never worked on an open source project before.  I thought
this would be
> a good project to start on.  I am away on business for the rest of
November
> so I probably won't start until after then.  If you are still
interested,
> let me know and I'll set something up in the early part of
December.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Josh Blair
> Evergreen, CO
>
>
> On 11/10/06, parcelbrat <j.deville@...> wrote:
> >
> >   Licensing is GPL, which gives you full permission to modify it
to C#,
> > or any other language. As far as the thumb drive, C# may not be
the
> > best choice. C# is going to require the .NET runtime on any
computer
> > you run it on.
> >
> > However, if you still want to do it I would be willing to help
out.
> > Just let me know what I can do.
> >
> > Jimmy
> >
> > --- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com <todotxt%
40yahoogroups.com>, "Josh Blair" <
> > josh.blair@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone interested in a C# .NET port of todo.txt? I'm not sure
if this
> > > is allowed with the licensing and such, but I was thinking
this tool
> > > would be nice for people that don't run Cygwin on Windows.
> > >
> > > I'd be willing to work on this solo or in concert with others.
> > >
> > > [Feature Requests]
> > >
> > > 1) I was thinking that regex (regular expressions) search
> > > capability would be a nice addition. If its already there,
please let
> > > me know.
> > >
> > > 2) Ability to run on a thumb drive / USB stick
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the tool Gina. It is really cool. And Simple.
> > >
> > > Josh Blair
> > > Evergreen, CO
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

todo.sh currently has this as its first line:
#! /bin/sh

This works on systems that link sh to bash, such as Ubuntu 6.06, but
it actually uses extensions provided by bash that are not present in
the regular Bourne shell.

Systems that use a regular sh, such as Ubuntu 6.10 [1], fail. The easy
fix is to just change the first line to:
#! /bin/bash

Cheers

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

Lenny Domnitser escribe:
> todo.sh currently has this as its first line:
> #! /bin/sh
>
> This works on systems that link sh to bash, such as Ubuntu 6.06, but
> it actually uses extensions provided by bash that are not present in
> the regular Bourne shell.
>
> Systems that use a regular sh, such as Ubuntu 6.10 [1], fail. The easy
> fix is to just change the first line to:
> #! /bin/bash

When invoked as sh, bash don't use the featured extensions. That's a
reason why I usually invoke as /bin/sh in the scripts I create, to
ensure backwards compatability.

I can't believe that Ubuntu 6.10 uses a regular sh instead of
bash. Instead, after following the link, I see Ubuntu changed bash for
dash! Another good reason for keeping on using Debian instead. :)

Cordially, Ismael
--
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                                   de travailler pour lui." Albert Camus
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http://www.hispasonic.com/foro73.html      Jabber ID: ivalladt@...

This is almost off-topic, but i thought I'd post here because of all the
discussions of forking the todo.sh project lately.  My biggest problem
with todo.sh, the remind script, and services like 30boxes and Google
Calendar is that there are features from each one that I like, but
they're not really compatible.

Well, someone took the ideas behind todo.sh and wrote a perl script that
uses 30boxes.com as a back-end.  I like this concept because it allows
me to use the command-line whenever I am at one of my own computers, but
if I want to use my phone, or someone else's computer, I can just go to
30boxes.com to see what I need to be doing.

Anyway, the script is at the link below, and I was wondering if anyone
had tried it. Also, I'd love to hear about other ways to integrate these
types of services.
http://bulknews.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/30boxespl_how_i.html


enjoy,
K


--
In Vino Veritas
http://astroturfgarden.com

Bugs that should be fixed (in my opinion):

* #!/usr/bin/env python
* Case-insensitive sorting

An idea:

* "t do p:project" or "todo.py do @tag" to mark all related tasks done?

Here are three mods that I've been using for a while,
the first two aims at reducing information, making
listings easier to read and more concise:

* Hide listed tag out of listing
* Hide WAIT and done entries out of listing
* Include front end to birdseye.py in todo.py


Patch that hides current tag, as well as WAIT and finished tasks.

352a356,362
>                 # remove patterns from output
>                 if re.match(r"^(@|\+|p:|wait|due:)", pattern):
>                     re_hide = re.compile(pattern+r"\S*\s*")
>                     v = re_hide.sub('', v)
>             # don't list WAIT unless explicitly wanted
>             if "WAIT" in v and not "WAIT" in patterns: match = False
>             if re.match(r"^x ", v): match = False


Patch that includes birdseye view report:

213a214,216
>     birdseye
>     b
>       Bird's Eye View Report
>
519a530,538
> def birdseye():
>     try:
>         import birdseye
>     except:
>         print "birdseye.py not found."
>         sys.exit()
>     archive()  # archive first
>     birdseye.main([TODO_FILE, DONE_FILE])
>
616a636,637
>     elif (action in ["birdseye", "b", "summarize", "overview"]):
>         birdseye()

Hi Vidar,

I commited a new version to the svn repository at google with some of
your suggestions applied (<http://code.google.com/p/todo-py/>).

Am Sonntag, 19. November 2006 22:54 schrieb Vidar Gundersen:
> * #!/usr/bin/env python
> * Case-insensitive sorting

[x] done
I introduced a new configurable boolean variable sortIgnoreCase which
can be used to set the sort method. So you can choose the desired
behavior.

> An idea:
>
> * "t do p:project" or "todo.py do @tag" to mark all related tasks
> done?

that's not so easy. Someone like me could use @Wartet instead of WAIT,
so it wouldn't work in that case. Maybe we provide a configurable list
with stop words, which will be suppressed in any output. Could you work
on something like that?

> * Include front end to birdseye.py in todo.py

[x] done.
You have to copy birdseye.py into a convenient location so that the
import statement will find the module.

Thank you very much for your work. Please test the new version!

have fun
Karsten

(mail resent, because it didn't appear in the mailing list)

most excellent, Graham ! loving it !
one (ok, two) small things;
1) there's no -V (version) option, and the -h text still says "Version
1.5.2-python" even thought it isn't, and
2) a tiny rfe; I'd like it if, when entering initial todo text, a
leading single upper case letter was immediately recognised as the
priority level (I know, all I have to do is enclose it in quotes, but
that involves holding the shift key, pressing the "9" key, entering
the priority, while holding the shift key AGAIN, and then, as if that
weren't enough, holding the shift key AGAIN while hitting the "0"..
and that's just TOO HARD !      ;-)

thanks for the fine work !

djp

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "DP" <djp@...> wrote:
> (I know, all I have to do is enclose it in quotes,
I mean.. brackets.. of course..

Quotes are not required when adding text using todo.py from the
command line unless the text includes characters that the shell
interprets to mean something.

These must be quoted since they mean something in bash -- ymmv:

!, #, (, ), $, &, *, \, |, ;, <, >, `, ~

These don't need to be quoted iirc:

@, %, ^, _, :, ,, ?, ., =, +, [, ], {, }

Hope this helps,

Graham

Hi Patrick,

Am 22.11.2006 um 05:05 schrieb David J Patrick:
> right then, oh mighty python wrangler, might you adjust the magic
> so that I can lead with a single capitalized letter that becomes
> priority ?

I added your suggestion as RFE (<http://code.google.com/p/todo-py/
issues/list>). Your idea sounds good for me. Are there any objections
here from the list?


> and while you're in there >;-) might you cast a spell upon the
> prepend function so's it don't break that branny new priority ?

ouch ;-) The prepend function now preserves any priority, which
stands at the beginning of a todo. Please test the new version 1.7.8-
py from <http://todo-py.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/todo.py>

have fun!
Karsten

Ok - looks like things are moving forward swiftly thanks to Karsten.
He submitted a patch that handles priorities with the prepend function.

As I see it we have several options to consider to give priority
functionality to the add function:

todo.py add A task
todo.py add [a] task
todo.py add {a} task

I worry that your suggestion is not fail safe -- ie. new people will
accidentally add 'A task' not realizing this feature exists.  The []
and {} both have the advantage over () that they don't need escaping -
at least on the bash shell.

Any other thoughts before we implement this?

Graham

ps. Easy on the praise for me - this code was written by Shane Koster :)

Well I went ahead an added functionality as follows:

t add [a] task 1
t add {b} task 2
t add "(c) task 3"
t add task 4
t add A task 5
t add task [a] 6

which gives:

   1: (A) task 1
   2: (B) task 2
   3: (C) task 3
   4: task 4
   5: A task 5
   6: task [a] 6

Hopefully that will work for everyone -- if not we can always revert.

Graham

I've recently become enamored with the idea of using todo.txt and your
todo.sh script.

I downloaded cygwin, and have been trying to get todo.sh to work, but
I can't figure out how to keep .todo as ".todo" in windows. Is there a
way to rewrite it so that the todo.sh script can pull from a renamed file?

Sorry... I'm really new to the bash scripting side of things.


Evan.

Not only would it be easier to keep comments in another file, it may
be more according to the "Getting Things Done" way of doing things.
Information you need in order to get something done would go in your
Reference file, in order to not clutter up your To Do list.

By the way, David, according to GTD, each one of your stuff in your
"do important stuff" example would be its own to do item, since you
can only do them one at a time, and they are separate tasks.

Hope that helps!

--- In todotxt@yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Harper" <Jeremy.Harper@...> wrote:
>
> I believe that it would be easier to add to the todo script the
ability to
> read "n:XYZ.txt," where "XYZ.txt" is the notes for that particular
entry.
>
> That way your notes about an entry could be more than one line;
instead, it
> could be all the reference info related to a topic. That way also
multiple
> todos could reference the same note.
>
> Then in the todolist folder, you could have a subfolder that all the
notes
> would reside in.
>
> The todo script could then be modified to append to the notes file
(t n) or
> display the contents of the notes file (t lsn) or delete the note (t
deln).
>
> I may have to work on this tomorrow morning.
>
> -J. D. Harper
> http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/
>
> On 11/21/06, Lorance Stinson <LoranceStinson@...> wrote:
> >
> >   My version of todo.sh adds a comment feature that is similar to
what you
> > want. To make this work properly each note has a unique
alphanumeric ID. So
> > after I add a new todo item I can add a note by "t comment ID This
is a
> > comment." and to view the comments on an item all I have to do is
"t show
> > ID". The only problem is it's only available as a shell script and
your
> > existing files have to be modified. The problem with adding
notes/comments
> > to the existing structure is the numbers change depending on where
in the
> > todo.txt file they are. This is why I changed to using a unique ID for
> > each item. To make the changes I include a migration script. Check
it out at
> > http://lorance.freeshell.org/todo/
> >
> >
> > On 11/21/06, David J Patrick <djp@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >  A couple of threads have mentioned "notes" associated with todos.
> > > This would be brilliant as my sometimes cryptic todo begs for
further
> > > details.
> > > Is there current thinking along these lines ? How would they be
added ?
> > > how would they be read ?
> > >
> > > maybe
> > > t a "(B) @comp do important stuff p:cli-wellness n:install and test
> > > todotxt plug-ins, integrate remind functionality and establish
reporting
> > > approach"
> > > or
> > > t a "(B) @comp do important stuff p:cli-wellness"
> > > then
> > > t n (or note) 57 "install and test todotxt plug-ins, integrate
remind
> > > functionality and establish reporting approach"
> > >
> > > then
> > > t ls @comp
> > > 57 (B) @comp do important stuff p:cli-wellness
> > > or
> > > t lsn (or lsnote)@comp
> > > 57 (B) @comp do important stuff p:cli-wellness
> > > note: install and test todotxt plug-ins, integrate remind
functionality
> > > and establish reporting approach
> > >
> > > whadya think ?
> > > ps. I'm using (and loving) todo.py
> > >
> > > --
> > > djp@...
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> > > geek chic and caffe cachet
> > > 326 Harbord Street,
> > > Toronto, M6G 3A5,
> > > (416) 534-2116
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://lorance.freeshell.org/
> > http://lorancestinson.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorancestinson/
> >
> >
> >
>